Keep It Light
I. OPERATION RESOLUTE SUPPORT USMC CAMP DWYER, AFGHANISTAN “War,” the colonel announces, “is hell.” He sits behind a metal field desk, a MacArthur corncob pipe jutting from his teeth like a gearshift. Looking at his face, my mind is filled with rugged adjectives. Granite jaw. Iron hair. Steely eyes. The wind howls up the Hemland…